IF THE ONLY PRAYER YOU SAID IN YOUR LIFE WAS "THANK YOU", THAT WOULD SUFFICE. ~Meister Eckhart

Thursday, July 23, 2009

07.23.09

Love is not what you want, it is what you are. It is very important to not get these two confused. ~Neale Donald Walsh

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Today I am grateful...

for those who show me what I do not want to be

that God has really shown me over the past couple days that I cannot say or write what I am thinking because it would not solve anything

for the love and support of a few that I have known for a long, long time

that I have this day at my disposal, and numerous and wondrous things can happen

that I am taking a group of paintings to be photographed today for possible magazine publication

If you think that love is what you want, you will go searching for it all over the place. If you think love is what you are, you will go sharing it all over the place. The second approach will cause you to find what the searching will never reveal.

Yet you cannot give love in order to get it. Doing that is as much as saying you do not now have it. And that statement will, of course, be your reality. No, you must give love because you have it to give. In this will you experience your own possession of it. ~N. D. Walsh

10 comments:

Scott, I know that I learn a lot from being around people with whom I can't identify and who I don't want to emulate. They teach me that humility is important, that resentment can maim and that self-pity is selfish. Thanks.